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Sunday, March 06, 2016

One must say Yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found – and it is
found in terrible places. . . For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and
forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always
changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease
to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses
they have. The sea rises, the light falls, lovers cling to each other, and
children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we
break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us, and the light goes out.

From the Work

through this life we pass,here for only seventeensyllables, three lines

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These pages, too, are nothing other than talking leaves—their insights stirred by the winds, their vitality reliant on periodic sunlight and on cool dark water seeping up from within the ground. Step into their shade. Listen close. Something other than the human mind is at play here.

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